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Justin Eilers was shot and died shortly thereafter on Friday morning after an apparent domestic disturbance at an acquaintance’s home in Canyon County, Idaho. Eilers, 30, apparently was asked to leave a holiday party after tensions arose with an ex-girlfriend. When he refused, the home's owner was said to have pulled a gun on him and shot him once ...

According to the Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas has staked its future on 320-thread-count linens, 2,200-square-foot suites, filet mignon, Chanel, seaweed wraps and $5,000 bets on slot machines. The latest batch of mega-resorts revels in luxury. Thrift mostly vanished with showgirls and the Rat Pack.

Now some observers are wondering whether that was a wise bet.

UPDATED STORY: DA says Fry’s executive was major debtor in Las Vegas

The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that a one-time computer salesman who rose through the ranks to help build Fry's Electronics into a robust retailer is facing allegations that he defrauded the San Jose company out of $65 million, much of which he used ...

Affliction Vice President Tom Atencio said he's uncertain of his organization's event schedule for 2009.

“I just want to do what I do, and do it well—be one of the best,” Atencio told MMAjunkie.com. “Everyone compares us to the UFC. Everybody says we’re competing with the UFC. I’m not here to do that. I’m just here to put on ...

There is something especially unsettling about visiting Las Vegas these days -- and it is not the town’s lascivious culture. A voyage to Sin City in this moment of ecological and economic crisis is a journey to a giant concave mirror reflecting back the magnified -- and ugly -- truths about this epoch of cataclysmic consumption and hubristic hedonism.

So it appears it's not a matter of if Ricky Hatton and Manny Pacquiao will fight, but when. Details from both Top Rank's camp and Golden Boy promotions suggest a bout between the two stars could happen as early as May in Las Vegas.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary in Orlando of Lan Nouba, Downtown Disney's Cirque du Soleil show.

"It's an artistic and acrobatic achievement every time the lights go up on La Nouba, Downtown Disney's very own piece of the Cirque du Soleil phenomenon," the Sentinel writes.